I have a question. A handful of friends came over recently and we ate caviar and assorted other food which a friend of mine had pulled out of a garbage dumpster. (I have been known to liberate good food from dumpsters before, so that is not the question). Here is a quote from the invitation he sent out:

Now let me further set the scene. Janel is out of town. Our kitchen sink is on the fritz, so I have to wash dishes in the bathroom. Whenever we need water, we have to fill the Brita up in the shower. Another friend brings red wine, but it was in his trunk and it is warm. We play two rounds of Settlers of Catan. It's five guys (without their wives or fiances or girlfriends), and one woman (recently back from Afghanistan and still jet-lagged).

Here's the question: are we counter-cultural, or is this just an indicator that the guy-girl ratio was out of whack?

Can I get a shout out to eating garbage?